Researchers using the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have identified aerothermal flaws in jet engine turbine blades that conventional simulation methods could not detect. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have used one of the world's most powerful supercomputers to find out how microscopic damage to turbine blades ...

Rim-driven thrusters turn the normal propeller-motor arrangement inside out; rather than mounting the motor at the center of ...

Modern fighter jets are extremely capable, except they run into some efficiency problems at extremely high speeds. China says ...

SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (Reuters) - GE Aerospace technician Suresh Sinnaiyan has spent more than a ⁠decade ⁠repairing jet‑engine compressor blades by guiding them across a sanding belt ⁠with practised ...

It is easy to admire an aircraft in flight, gliding across the sky, but far harder to imagine the furnace within—jet engines, ...

Rolls-Royce plc reported its involvement in a novel defense/manufacturing effort to recycle obsolete fighter aircraft components as powdered metal that is used to 3D-print parts for a new jet engine.

A next-generation combustor and refined turbine aerodynamics also help the engine trim its overall carbon emissions and limit ...

In the endless pursuit of faster, more efficient travel, engineers have been cooking up all kinds of new forms of propulsion. One of the most interesting to emerge in the last decade is the electric ...

The General Electric Company's jet engine division, now known as GE Aerospace, has been at the center of engine development for jet fighters from the very beginning. During World War II, the U.S. Army ...